These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

A wonderfully versatile natural history curio cabinet preserved since the 1840s.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.